Gargoyles And Grotesques

Glowering and grimacing from the walls of churches and other buildings, gargoyles and grotesques represent an often trivialised aspect of medieval art in which  nightmarish beasts mingle with seemingly comical figures. Alex Woodcock here tells the story of the monsters, mermaids and mouth-pullers that to this day provoke much curiosity among church visitors. Alex Woodcock traces their history and analyses their artistic context, from their Romanesque beginnings through to their heyday in the 14th and 15th centuries.

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